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Modern Marvels: WWII
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Modern Marvels: WWII actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Modern Marvels: WWII reads strongest on Serialized, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Explore the greatest machines, most impactful weapons, and groundbreaking innovations of WWII, shining a light on the engineering and technological advances that shaped the course of the conflict and continue to influence our world today.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Rob O'BrienExecutive Producer
- Jim PasquarellaExecutive Producer
- David DoyleExecutive Producer
- Angelica Rosas McDanielExecutive Producer
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